This paper studies the influence of a manager's pre-decision use of an information system on the central office's decision to provide such a system in the first place. At the outset, the manager is ignorant about the cost of an investment project. Higher effort when using the information system...

This study aims to examine the perception of government employees about the association of the culture of compliance in information technology (IT) on the service quality, accountability, and transparency through effective IT governance (ITG) as an intervening variable. This study was carried...

Outsourcing is an efficient way to reduce a company’s costs and is often necessary to remain competitive. However, the practice has had its critics. This article summarizes the outsourcing debate that has been going on in the United States and offers some insights about the practice. Also...

The use of electronic technology for communication has since become a very vital and effective tool of human resources development and management in tertiary institutions across the world. In Nigeria, it is fast becoming a significant aspect of human resources development. Thriving organisations...

To find out the roles of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in firm performance, two dimensions of impacts of ICT on firm activities are identified. Except for lowering the cost of information processing, storage, and communication, ICT significantly changes the way that people and...

In the wide and increasing attention for the so-called "new economy", two, not necessarily compatible, issues meet the eye. Firstly, most discussions apply macro-economic concepts, yet secondly their general gist is that the new economy demands new tools for analysis. In this paper, the existing...

The event study is an important methodology in management research that enables the assessment of value attributable to firm initiatives based on the responses of capital markets to news about firm actions. While capital markets are efficient in processing information about firms, their ability...

What can ICT bring for the inhabitants of 600,000 Indian villages? How India is empowering the poor and marginalised citizens to participate in the emerging knowledge society? How will India provide voice to her millions of citizens? "Taking ICT to every Indian village: Opportunities and...

Development and usage of information and communication technology (ICT) is continuously growing in the last 30 years. The main reason is that ICT has a great potential to improve the efficiency of business processes, to increase the competitiveness, but also to facilitate and drive innovations....